It's mentioned that you need to get the "paid version" of PDFCreator to encrypt files. Are we talking about the same program? It is free - it's open source ... I set my preferences to encrypt the files, so I am automatically given the option to set a password for the PDF as soon as I hit print to PDFCreator as I work with medical records. I just hit cancel instead of setting the password if I don't need to encrypt the document. It's the best open source PDF utility available, IMO.

Last edited by Deirdre; 2011-04-14 at 08:36.
Reason: Added link to software site.

As you have shown it is not really hard to encrypt email or the attachment. The hard part is getting people to use the systems. How do you do that? All I get is push back. "It's too hard", "I can never remember my password", "It's too many extra steps", etc. How do you convince the two major groups, the Company Officers and the Clients? If they aren't willing to do it then no matter how easy the solution, it won't be used.

That's why I've found the paid version of sharefile.com to be the easiest with bosses and clients. It's protected/ecrypted in transit. Otherwise yes, you do get the 'it's too hard'. It has a hook right into Outlook if you want that.

PDF(nospace)Creator <> PDF Creator

Originally Posted by Deirdre

It's mentioned that you need to get the "paid version" of PDFCreator to encrypt files. Are we talking about the same program? It is free - it's open source ... I set my preferences to encrypt the files, so I am automatically given the option to set a password for the PDF as soon as I hit print to PDFCreator as I work with medical records. I just hit cancel instead of setting the password if I don't need to encrypt the document. It's the best open source PDF utility available, IMO.

PDFCreator (no space) has tons of options and can generate all kinds of different formatted outputs, uses different levels of encryption, password or no passwords, can combine multiple docs into a single PDF, and just works like a charm. If you haven't been into the 'options' section in a while, it's worth a look